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Development Strategies for Online Volunteer Training Modules: A Team Approach
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Robideau, Kari; Vogel, Eric – Journal of Extension, 2014
Volunteers are central to the delivery of 4-H programs, and providing quality, relevant training is key to volunteer success. Online, asynchronous modules are an enhancement to a training delivery menu for adult volunteers, providing consistent, accessible options traditionally delivered primarily face to face. This article describes how Minnesota…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Volunteer Training
Training Volunteers to Work With the Confined Elderly: The Design of a Model Project Workshop for a Rural Area.
Bolin, Nancy Clare – 1978
This paper details plans for a one-and-one-half-day volunteer training workshop specifically designed to consider limitations such as manpower, money, time, and distance that are often encountered in the development of training events for rural areas. The paper begins by providing background on rural aging, and needs assessment information on the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Educational Gerontology
English as a Second Language in Volunteer-Based Programs. ERIC Digest.
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Schlusberg, Paula; Mueller, Tom – 1995
Frequently, English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs for adults use volunteers as primary or auxiliary providers of instruction. Two primary national volunteer organizations and a number of other national organizations support volunteer ESL and basic literacy instruction, and many states have literacy councils that coordinate and provide…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Course Content
Programming and Training Booklet 6: How to Integrate Programming and Training.
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2003
This booklet, one of six that compose the Peace Corp's programming and training (P&T) guidelines, provides information and ideas on ways to increase each post's effectiveness through linking P&T. An introduction discusses the direct impact that P&T have on the success of each other, since, at the Peace Corps, programming drives…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Budgeting, Community Development, Community Resources
Le Nouveau Manuel de Formation sur l'Elaboration et la Gestion des Projets. (The New Project Design and Management Workshop Training Manual).
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2003
A french language version of a training manual that presents guidelines for planning and conducting a project design and management (PDM) workshop to teach Peace Corps volunteers to involve local community members in the process of using participatory analysis tools and planning and implementing projects meeting local desires and needs. The first…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques
The New Project Design and Management Workshop Training Manual.
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2000
This training manual presents guidelines for planning and conducting a project design and management (PDM) workshop to teach Peace Corps volunteers to involve local community members in the process of using participatory analysis tools and planning and implementing projects meeting local desires and needs. The first six sections contain the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies, Change Agents